Here's something weird I just ran across: a story from January reporting that the Parliamentary bill to disestablish the Church of England was randomly assigned the number 666. Excerpt:
Bob Russell, Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester and one of the signatories, said: “It is is incredible that a motion like this should have, by chance, acquired this significant number.“This number is supposed to be the mark of the Devil. It looks as though God or the Devil have been moving in mysterious ways.
“What is even stranger is that this motion was tabled last night when MPs were debating blasphemy.”
Scawy!
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Some believe that the original Greek was intended to be exponential, not unitary digits: six, to the sixth power, that result to the sixth power.
A beastly number, indeed, and makes the paltry six hundred and sixty-six pale by comparison.
;-D
In scientific notation, it'd be approximately 1.031 x (10 to the 28th power) aka about 10 octillion or 1 followed by 28 zeroes.
I note for the record that Franklin's post was the 13th.
Victor! Shush, yer messin' wit me mojo.
New Number: 616
Archives discovered in the 1950s have be reinspected with the latest equiment. These documrnts are in the bibical Greek of St. John's time. The documents were faded and in very poor condition. They found that the number is 616. These documents are at least century older than the documents used by the 1546 Council of Trent upon which the current KJV is based.
It was a current fixture of the time to use the numeral/letter combination to disclosed secrets; certain numbers represent different letters, etc. The Jews and the Greeks were great at this game. 616 counts out to be Caligula.
John's book, "Revalations", had been voted in and out of the Christian Cannon from its beginning; The Council of Trent voted it into the New Testment cannon.
Of course the number was written out not useing the Arbic Numerals system. The Greeks would of course have different integer notations.
It should be remembered that he was writing to the 'churches of the East', not the churches of North America.
Sincerely, J R Dittbrenner
Accorting to John Hagee, the Antichrist will be a gay German Jew. Don't know if any of those things apply to Victor.
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